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Jan 23, 2006
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o Janata Dal-Secular rebel legislators from Karanataka are
presently campining in a seven-star hotel in Canacona,
and appeared confident of forming the next government
in their state. (Navhind Times)
While Mr Digamber Kamat MLA Margao and Minister for
Art and Culture in his new avtar now re-doning the
Congress mantle after over 51 months in the BJP takes
credit for the modernising the Ana Fonte Spring (see
photograph) near the Bernardo Peres da Silva Club
grounds at Margao scheduled to be
George,
Is there a solution for the below mentioned problem?
If so, what is the solution for this problem?
Or are we just repeating on goanet the well know problem, just like the Goan
politicians.
Recently, the Governor, Chief Minister and politicians of Goa mentioned
What is Goan Culture?
and what are Goan Festival traditions?
Just curios!
Cip
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To maintain my Goan culture, my wife and I attended a social evening to
celebrate Blessed Joseph Vaz, Pongal and Makarsankranti festivals in Utica,
New York. I
Boeing to train Indian pilots in fog operations
Webindia123.com
New Delhi | January 23, 2006 9:15:09 AM IST
US aircraft major Boeing will set up four flight simulators in India to
train pilots to operate in adverse conditions and poor visibility like
fog which plays havoc with flight schedules in
BJP tight-lipped about Jaitley's arrival in Goa
Panaji, Jan 22(UNI): State unit of the BJP today remained non-committal
about senior party leader Arun Jaitley's presence in the city.
It was earlier reported in the day that Mr Jaitley had air dashed to
Goa, presumably to hold discussions with
Nowadays the media seems to have latched on to the point that the
Jet-Sahara combine accounts for 85% of the flights between Mumbai and
Delhi. This seemed too high considering that Indian's flights had also to
be factored in. Here is an analysis which appears to place more reasonable
figures on
Secrets behind church facades
BY MELVYN MISQUITA [Herald]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
What do mermaids, a two-headed eagle, lions, the mythical Cyclops and a boat
have in common? Believe it or not, they all grace the facades of parishes
churches in Goa.
To be honest, a casual spectator may find facades
The Word
Sunday, January 22, 2006
Death and the Maiden
DEVYANI ONIAL
Posted online: Sunday, January 22, 2006 at hours IST
IT'S the story of a Girl who lived by herself in a village by the sea. A
village called Azul because the sea that
Lawrence, I am not sure if you are serious or not but physical features do
sometimes (not always)
give away one's background.
As regards who is a Goan and who is not, the identity issue has been discussed
often and at
length. I know who is NOT a Goan - Israelis, Russians (temporarily in Goa for
--- Mario Goveia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This author has apparently taken Khajuraho and
extrapolated from that.
Since I pointed out that I have seen erotic images of
deities in the temple friezes of Goa, let me provide
some pictoral evidence of this from the famous Kamat's
Potpouri website:
must have been a priest was he?
- Original Message -
From: Frederick Noronha (FN) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PANAJI, Goa (SAR NEWS) -- Notorious paedophile Albert Freddy Peats, who
served a life sentence in India, was given a Catholic burial at the St.
Inez Church cemetery at Panaji, January 6.
The Year 2005 saw two important Bills being passed by the Indian Parliament.
The first is The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence - 2005 and the
second is The Hindu Succession(Amendment) Bill, 2005.
The first bill would protect women from domestic, physical, sexual, verbal,
emotional
Dear Jean D'Mello and Isabelle D'Mello,
Your Beloved husband Mr. Arthur D'Mello will be
greatly remembered and greatly missed by all . My
prayers go to both of you . Pray that Mr. Arthur
D'Mello enjoy's eternal peace and happiness - who will
never be forgotten for his role model and leadership
The big problem faced by us today? ... Being the girl who growing up in
Panjim ... without my father I learn that it is very hard for us... all
young boys are too forward and the girl have to listen to them or else they
leave us... is this our Goa? ... we are worried about AIDS and
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi RKN,
Please do not be too harsh on the miniscule minority
of Bhatkars and Fidalgos in Goa (pre-1961).
They were really like A one-eyed person, who is a
king among the blind.
Kind Regards, GL
Radhakrishnan Nair:
Portuguese Goa was a neat and
--- Gabe Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Vasco Jan 21: In a heart-rending incident, a
two-year-old girl and her
two-month-old brother were killed today when they
were knocked down by
a speeding taxi while crossing the road with their
mother at
Dabolim-Bogmalo junction.
Very tragic.
There is a female waiter at the Italian restaurant at the Leela who has been
there some years and last year we came accross one at (I think) the Taj
Exotica. We wondered if this was a sign of being upmarket?
Justine
Christa D'Souza writes about her father.
22 Jan. The Sunday Times. Columnist Christa D'Souza writes Big Daddy
spends a lot of his time worrying what would happen to his little
fritter-bird (that's me) if he ever got run over by a bus.
On 15 Jan she wrote: My 75-year-old dad raised himself from
http://dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1009121
'Goa minister issued notice for perpetual foul mouth'
Pushpa Iyengar
PANAJI: First Mickky Pacheco dared to use an expletive against
Margaret Alva, AICC general secretary and Goa in-charge. Then he
carried out a public tirade against chief minister
dear fr nasciment, how lovely your description is of the mango tree in the
rear compound of st andrew's church. the serene way you weave the necklace of
seasons draws us to the awareness of the transience of life. after listening
to the exquisite lament of david for the death of saul and
http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=newsStory_ID=01237
Gowda laments lack of moral values in world
PTI
Shravanabelagola, Jan 22: Former prime minister and Janata Dal-Secular
chief, Mr H D Deve Gowda, who is expected to play a pivotal role in
resolving the present political imbroglio in
http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=newsStory_ID=01231
Concern raised over effectiveness of road safety measures
by Shyam Jambauliker
MargaoJan 20: Even as a sudden increase in the number of fatal and
minor road accidents reported in South Goa has raised serious queries
about the
While I could not find current statistics on the ratio of Goans to
non-Goans in Goa, it appears looking around that one out three people
in Goa are non-Goans. George Pinto
By George! Never knew one could tell I was goan by my *look*.
But, having been born, bred, resident in Maharashtra,
Sachin,
Having grown up in RSS dominated Jabalpur, where I
visited many temples with my Hindu friends, I can
attest that I have never seen acrobatic friezes of
copulating couples in any Hindu temple, with the
exception of the unique temples at Khajuraho.
You can expect such snide articles from
Richard Cabral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm a bit confused with the seeming contradiction in the post sent
by Dominic Fernandes.
He writes During the Portuguese regime only bhattkars' children could
go to school. If tenants sent their children.
And in the last para he saysDo you
Announcing the death of Mr John Fernandes (Arpora/Colvale, Bardez)
[ex-Nairobi railways] passed away peacefully on Monday (early hours), 23rd
January.
Loving husband of late Santana Henriquita. Son of late Mr. Antonio
Fernandes and late Mrs Magdelina Santana Fernandes of Colvale, Bardez.
From: Gabe Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 2-year-old girl and infant brother killed in Dabolim road mishap
Newsgroups: gmane.culture.region.india.goa
Date: 2006-01-22 09:46:39 GMT (8 hours and 10 minutes ago)
http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=newsStory_ID=012224
2-year-old girl
--- Mario Goveia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gabriel,
Bully's way? What do you call Portugal's absurd
sophistry that they would NOT follow Britain and
France out of colonial India because it was an
overseas province? What intelligent solution
would YOU have used in the face of such
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[Was just wondering if Lynn de Souza had a Goan link.
Googling found it. She is the Lintas Group Director of media
services and healthcare and, as an animal rights activist,
she even set up the Goa SPCA. Check out Lynnisms: stray
thoughts on stray subjects http://lynnisms.blogsource.com/bio.mhtml
Hi Patrick,
Your idea to set up an Anglo-Indian school or any other educational
institution is a welcome one. Go ahead and dont get discouraged. The Goa
government is planning to make Goa a knowledge destination by establishing
knowledge parks and educational estates. If you want any help please
--- Bosco D'Mello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri Jan 20 2006 03:04:26 PST cornel wrote:
I am familiar with the story about Goan worker
expertise being discovered
by the Brits during the Napoleonic wars. I'd like
to read some of this
in texts if possible.
On Fri Jan 20, 2006 3:56
--- Antonio Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now a question to all those Goanetters who had
lived in a Goan
village during the Portuguese regime in the late
forties and
fifties. Do you remember what village life was
like and if so,
compare it with todays burstling life of any Goan
--- Bosco D'Mello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Gabriel,
With not quite true - are you conceding that it
was true and that Domnic's
statement above has merit. And with not in
Loutolim are you conceding that
the statement above is true with regard to other
parts of Goa ??
When I said
--- Radhakrishnan Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gabriel,
Goa might look like shambles to you from
Melbourne, but to people like us
(resident Goans and other Indians familiar with the
place), it's a far more
progressive, prosperous and democratic State than
the colonial backwater that
Narvekar assures Socorro villagers of playground
NT News Desk
Panaji Jan 21: The Law Minister, Mr Dayanand Narvekar has assured the
villagers of Socorro that the playground in the village would be
developed with added facilities of a multipurpose hall at an estimated
cost of Rs 65 lakh under the
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over the affected part.
--- Antonio Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Today, let us have a good look at one typical Goan
village, say
Navelim or Chinchinim .
Can you tell us the development of TV, communications,
water supply etc with the rest of india?
Thank you.
BC
State denies airport plans for Rewas
Sunday, January 22, 2006 01:34:24
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
MUMBAI: The state government on Saturday made it clear that it has no
plans to develop an airport in the Rewas-Mandwa belt of Raigad district.
On January 17, state chief secretary R M Premkumar had written
A detailed and comprehensive article has been written
by Eng. Francisco Monteiro on the construction and
establishment of the Dabolim airport which can be
found on the following URL:
http://www.supergoa.com/pt/read/news_cronica.asp?c_news=521
50 years on the illegal occupation still continues.
On Saturday, 28th January, 2006 (coincidentally the
67th birthday of Goa's longest serving Chief Minister
Mr Pratapsing Raoji Rane b: 1939 ) the Goa Cultural
Social Centre will be organizing the 39th Mando
festival competition of Mandos, Dulpods etc at Hotel
Majestic at Porvorim.
This time two
To maintain my Goan culture, my wife and I attended a social evening to
celebrate Blessed Joseph Vaz, Pongal and Makarsankranti festivals in Utica,
New York. I would encourage other Goans to learn about these Goan festival
traditions.
Kind Regards, GL
Hi RKN,
Please do not be too harsh on the miniscule minority of Bhatkars and Fidalgos
in Goa (pre-1961).
They were really like A one-eyed person, who is a king among the blind.
Kind Regards, GL
Radhakrishnan Nair:
Portuguese Goa was a neat and civilized society only to the miniscule
minority
I would like to nominate A. Veronica Fernandes to start a committee of sincere
and dedicated
persons for this statue (to bell the cat himself). In true Goan fashion,
those who suggest an
idea should execute the idea and not wait for someone else. Since he is not
happy with the use of
funds
--- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Gabriel
I am familiar with the story about Goan worker
expertise being discovered by
the Brits during the Napoleonic wars. I'd like to
read some of this in texts
if possible.
Thanks again
Cornel
Hi Cornel,
Scanning my scant library of books on
Dear Goan,
just remember that our blood goan
Ministers n Mps can't do or remember Dr. Jack de
Sequeira statue , one Day see non goan person will
come on the CM chair n they will do the Dream true
just beleive my words.
yours fellow goan
stephen fernandes
Muscat/Divar
--- A.
While I could not find current statistics on the ratio of Goans to non-Goans in
Goa, it appears
looking around that one out three people in Goa are non-Goans. If this
demographic trend
continues, Goa might be the first state in a few years where Goans are a
minority in their own
land. Bengalis
As far as I can tell, the one prime example of the OPPOSITE is in the case
of Goa and, as luck would have it, it is having a perverse effect on the
state and its socio-economic prospects. This is the March 2000 Union Cabinet
decision to shut down the Dabolim civil enclave when the Mopa airport
On 22/01/06, Vincent Andrade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Cheers,
Gabe Menezes.
London, England
Gabe,
Whats there to Cheer about ..???
Vince
RESPONSE: Cheers is a form of salutation, used here in the U.K. not
just a word to be merry!
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary
Main
--- Mario Goveia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gabriel,
Bully's way? What do you call Portugal's absurd
sophistry that they would NOT follow Britain and
France out of colonial India because it was an
overseas province? What intelligent solution
would YOU have used in the face of such
Mahindra rallies splendidly to edge out 10 men JCT 2-1
Margao, Jan 20 (UNI): A last minute goal by Brazilian Jose Ramirez
Barretto enabled Federation Cup Champions Mahindra United, Mumbai, to
edge out ten-member former champions JCT mills, Phagwara, by 2-1 and
gained full points in the 10th ONGC
$105-m aid from World Bank for water schemes
Sify.com
Sunday, 22 January, 2006, 10:58
New Delhi: The Union Government and the World Bank have signed a
$104.98-million loan assistance agreement for promoting the sustained
and effective use of Hydrological Information System by potential users
http://oheraldo.in/node/8883
Scrap housing project or face stir: Cuncolim panel to Govt
BY HERALD REPORTER
MARGAO, JAN 21 — A day after Herald exposed Goa Housing Board's plans
to make the controversial housing colony in Cuncolim a reality, the
Cuncolim Citizens Action Committee has warned of an
http://oheraldo.in/node/8879
Mandó — the magnificent Goan folk song, dance
BY COLIN SAVIO COELHO
A great Goan mandó exponent of yesteryears has very appropriately
described this exquisite form of art as a biography of the Goan
heart which is always expressive of the intensive feelings of love,
Goanet News Bytes
Summaries
Jan 22, 2006
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Goa University to restart post-graduate course in Portuguese
literature. After a gap of nearly two years, students in Goa
can pursue their post-graduation in Portuguese Litt and
Culture, as Goa Univ is
--
Cheers,
Gabe Menezes.
London, England
Gabe,
Whats there to Cheer about ..???
Vince
- Original Message -
From: Gabe Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@goanet.org
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 3:16 PM
Subject: [Goanet] 2-year-old girl
D for decision but in govt it stands for dither, delay, defer,
dispute...
The Indian Express
Sunday, January 22, 2006
...be it clearing a movie (the entire Defence top brass troop in to
watch) to modernising our airports (where goalposts change every night),
why the Govt loves not making a
http://oheraldo.in/node/
Fresh lease of life for Ana Fonte
BY HERALD REPORTER
MARGAO, JAN 21 — After years of utter neglect, bride Ana is finally
decked up for the much-awaited red carpet reception, so to say.
The old Ana Fonte spring — once a favourite picnickers' destination
— today stands
http://oheraldo.in/node/8881
Garbage collection resumes in MMC ward
BY HERALD REPORTER
MARGAO, JAN 21 — Door-to-door collection of garbage resumed in the
Colmorod ward of Margao Margao Municipal with the Civic body deputing
five workers for the purpose.
Ward Councillor Savio Coutinho informed
http://oheraldo.in/node/8878
Konkani book release at Margao
BY HERALD REPORTER
MARGAO, JAN 21 — A Konkani book Navidadichem Xinkop on innovative
learning by Manoj Narendra Kamat will be released on January 25 at the
hands of Education Minister, Luizinho Faleiro at Fatima Convent hall,
Margao.
[This is ancient history. But some of us on Goanet would surely remember
this very clearly. When I met up with Marlon Menezes (the founder of
GoaWeb, and then part of Goacom.com and now with Goacom.org) the other
day, he mentioned that Vivek Menezes below (the other Vivek, not VM)
was in Google,
http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=newsStory_ID=012223
Travails of a common man for information
by Joaquim Fernandes
Mapusa Jan 21: Three months after the central Right to Information
Act, 2005 came into force on October 12, 2005, the state government
has neither constituted the state
http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=newsStory_ID=012224
2-year-old girl and infant brother killed in Dabolim road mishap
NT News Service
Vasco Jan 21: In a heart-rending incident, a two-year-old girl and her
two-month-old brother were killed today when they were knocked down by
a
Please add Goa-related events at the following online space:
http://upcoming.org/metro/in/ga/
A nice way to keep in touch with what's happening in Goa, and among the
diaspora! FN
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Frederick 'FN' Noronha |
11 hurt in freak mishap at Mapusa
NT News Service
Mapusa Jan 21: In a freak accident at Mapusa, 11 people were injured and
eight vehicles damaged when a truck carrying laterite stones lost
control and ploughed into the vehicles and pedestrians on the slope near
the Mapusa Municipality around 11
Goans' 'shocking' moments with death
oHERALDo
BY HERALD REPORTER
PANJIM, JAN 21 - The 'shock' treatment to three girls while trying to
retrieve a playing ring (tennikoit) with an iron rod, because of the
proximity of a high tension line to an apartment, has opened a Pandora's
box on the safety
The Saligao parish bulletin of January 2006 has an article with the
above title. It includes recipes based on mustard (rai) for rheumatism,
arthritis, joint pain, fatigue, and to relieve congestion.
Also ginger (for common cold, to prevent heart problems, for blood
pressure, prevent cold and flu,
http://www.expresstravelandtourism.com/200601/market02.shtml
Indian airports need licences from 2006
For the first time, the government has decided that all airports in the
country will need to be licensed to ensure that they conform to standards
laid down by the International Civil Aviation
http://www.asianage.com/main.asp?layout=2cat1=1cat2=22newsid=204293RF=De
faultMain
However the crux of the problem, according to aviation circles, is the
non-existence of an aviation policy. There has only been talk of a need for
one, but it has never materialised. No minister has stayed long
On Wednesday 25 January, at Lila, the stunning Japanese
masterwork Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomonwill be screened at 5 pm.
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature
of truth, Rashomon is perhaps the finest film ever to
investigate the philosophy of justice.Through an ingenious
use of
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